into our landscape of today and our way of life. A book, Creating Dairyland, (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2011) came out of his exploration of this “deeper soil”; a book that shows how learning to care for cows saved Wisconsin farmers from themselves, transformed them into progressives, created an industry and bequeathed the endearing bucolic landscape to Wisconsin that continues to define the state’s psyche today. As he writes in the book’s introduction: Care of the cow has brought prosperity to Wisconsin. And in a very important way, I believe the dairy cow created Wisconsin—that is, created the Wisconsin we know and love today. For when we drive through Dairyland we take in a scene that truly defines us: the neat barns with their ranks of silos, the undulating green of grasses, and especially the cows, our avatars of contentment. All of this—our farms, their silos and cows; our farmers, their prosperity and their intelligence; all the fields of grass; and our remarkable history—make up what I like to call the book of Dairyland. During the 160 years since dairy cows began to reshape Wisconsin’s landscape, economics, moral ethic, and way of life, many thousands of men and women have been initiated into a kind of faith: faith that care of the cow and the soil would bring them prosperity, even happiness. Janus is exploring a number of new projects. The first, a book, tentatively called Bringing the Enlightenment to Main Street, will tell the story of how Free Masonry transduced the philosophy of the enlightened liberalism into a way of being and living for millions of American men; citizens of a new liberal-moral democracy. The second project under consideration is a one-man play called Marcus Aurelius Tonight, a reprise for the venerable Stoic. References Lake Forest College alumni Living people Businesspeople from Madison, Wisconsin Year of birth missing (living people)